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    • Sunday, 12 March, 2023
      UK politics
      What Britain should learn from Biden’s IRA plan

      Like or loath the ‘protectionist’ Inflation Reduction Act’s green subsidies, America offers an example of strategic thinking

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    • Tuesday, 20 December, 2022
      UK inflation
      Strikes are an inevitability not an aberration

      Widespread stoppages, especially in the public sector, are a symptom of the state of the UK economy

      Royal College of Nursing members on the picket line outside St Thomas’ Hospital in central London
    • Saturday, 1 October, 2022
      UK public finances
      Lasting effects of ‘mini’ Budget will be felt far beyond the trading floors

      Kwarteng is on course to announce cuts as big as those set out by Osborne in 2010

      Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng
    • Saturday, 27 August, 2022
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      Textbook economics will not avert this winter’s energy catastrophe

      The crisis has made the UK poorer; we must use targeted help plus windfall and solidarity taxes to get through the worst

    • Friday, 18 February, 2022
      UK inflation
      Inflation will hit low and middle-income families hardest

      The cost-of-living crisis is delivering a final, fatal blow to a cosy economic consensus

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    • Thursday, 7 October, 2021
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      There is no simple story of migrants down, wages up

      The UK needs a post-Brexit, post-Covid economic strategy, not another argument about immigration

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    • Saturday, 21 March, 2020
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      Sunak’s plan is economically and morally the right thing to do

      The challenge will be to keep the UK social safety net strong even after the crisis

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									A woman walks past a boarded up pizza bar in Soho in London, Britain, 21 March 2020. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has ordered cafes, bars, restaurants and gyms to close in the night of 21 March, in an attempt to mitigate the spread of coronavirus and COVID-19.
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      With Brexit looming, we must get to grips with shifting work patterns

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